Tougher than Teflon? Trump shows he is the most resilient politician in modern US history

Loved, hated and feared, Donald Trump has proved once again that he is the most resilient politician in modern American history.Neither the ridicule of the political establishment toward the idea that he could win the White House nor the two-year investigation by a special counsel nor impeachment by the House of Representatives has bowed Trump or even prompted him to temper the brash, blunderbuss style that has brought him this far.The Senate acquitted the president Wednesday of two articles of impeachment that charged he abused power by pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political rival, then obstructed Congress in an effort to cover it up.Trump cheered the unsurprising verdict as vindication. Every Republican voted "not guilty" on the second count, but Mitt Romney of Utah crossed party lines on the first count, calling Trump guilty of abuse of power.Surviving impeachment isn't the same thing as winning a second term, of course.Trump's resilience will be tested again in November, when he will be the first impeached president to stand for reelection. That victory would put him in the most rarefied ranks of American politics, including 17 of his predecessors who won election and reelection to the White House.Trump's historic impeachment trial:Here are moments that made it memorable"There is absolutely no doubt that Trump has weathered a dozen or more scandals, moments, mistakes that would have destroyed most any other candidate or president in American history," said Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University.